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@RobbieSkeates @KaiserBCFC_ Tbf, there is a big difference between “getting the Assistant at 2006 Bournemouth” and “getting the assistant from one of the most overachieving Prem teams, whose model we should be aspiring to”

@KaiserBCFC_ Hasn’t got manager experience in the CL. Don’t care he was a top player. “Proving” yourself over 6 months after failing in the Championship isn’t warranted of a top job. It’s a cheap option😂

Would you call this a cheap option, especially on a two year deal…

@433FutbolFan @barneyronay Famously, defenders are often required to run the entire length of the pitch in a straight line, so a 100m sprint time is the perfect metric by which to assess them.

@barneyronay If Burn and Maguire run a 100m dash I bet you Maguire wins that 10 / 10 What’s the thing with Quansah and playing in Champions League knockouts?? What logic does that have in selecting a defender?

Harry Maguire: anatomy of how NOT to make a case for being the perfect 7-week back-up squad member. No need for Tuchel to explain now. We all save five mins

@s8mb “allowing social housing tenants to sell their tenancies” Tenant would get a 500k windfall, but would relinquish their right to social housing… there would be one additional private property in circulation… 500k redistributed from private buyer… Some pros, some cons

My thoughts on social housing and building in inner London: - Almost everyone who lives in social housing is a decent human being who is trying their best in often difficult circumstances. Among them are many retirees, kids, and people with disabilities. This must be the starting point for any serious thinking about housing in London. - London's job market is much stronger than that of the rest of the country. The median London wage is 25% more than the median English wage. The easier we make it for Britons to move to London, the richer they and the country will become. - Housing in inner London is extremely scarce and building rates are very low. In 2024–25, only 4,170 homes were started in London. London's housing target is 20x that and I think it's possible that we could build 100–150x that with the right reforms. - For now, we are in a roughly zero-sum game (which is one reason tensions are so high). We need to make this positive-sum by building more and by allowing voluntary exchanges of the existing housing stock. - There are about 450,000 socially rented homes in inner London. This is about one in three homes. About half of the 450,000 are occupied by lead tenants who are not working, either because they are retired (18%), disabled (13%), caring for someone else (7%), studying (2%), or unemployed/otherwise inactive (11%). - Social housing tenancies are basically tenancies-for-life, and can often pass down from parents to their children. They are close in practice to ownership, except that they cannot be sold. Ex-council flats in inner London are often worth £500,000 or more; there are many in extremely central parts of the city like Shoreditch, Soho and Farringdon that are worth even more than that. - Kicking people out of these homes against their will is, in general, morally bad and politically impossible. The public does not resent these people and would, rightly, find it appalling to turf them out of their homes against their will. - 'Gentrification' is a problem when it drives people out against their will by raising rents or other costs. It is primarily a problem caused by housing shortages. When housing supply can respond to new demand in an area, there is much less displacement of the people who live there. - Poor people do not like dirt, graffiti, crime, or derelict buildings, and many of their supposed champions have a patronising and somewhat dehumanising idea of what is in their interests. They do not want to live in unsafe, unpleasant areas any more than anyone else does. Change that makes places safer, cleaner and prettier without displacing existing residents is a good thing for everyone. - Large supermarkets are the cheapest places to buy food in London and allowing them to be built is the best way to protect people's access to affordable retail. - There are options that are good for tenants and good for people who wish to live in these central areas that do not push people out against their will. These are options that put tenants in control and give them a large share of the value created. At best, they reduce scarcity overall. - One is to make the social housing stock much more liquid by allowing social housing tenants to sell their tenancies into private ownership, keeping the returns to spend on a new property that is more suitable for their needs and the rest as savings. - Arguments against this that focus on the fact that many of the out-of-work people are blameless completely miss the point. For retirees, parents, and some people with disabilities, a home in a London suburb or a town other than London may be preferable to an apartment in inner London – more spacious, easier to access (eg, not up flights of stairs), and in a quieter neighbourhood. Existing schemes to allow people to trade their social home for a home by the seaside or in the country are hugely oversubscribed; this would unlock the entire private market to them. - Private owners already have the freedom to sell their home to who they want. That is one of the core benefits of private ownership. This extends that right to social tenants. - Another option is 'estate regeneration', where entire housing estates are rebuilt and existing tenants are given larger, newer homes built to modern standards and thousands of private units also added. Where tenants are given a vote on this, they consistently vote in favour (29/30 ballots have passed, often with enormous majorities and turnouts.) Hundreds of thousands of homes could be added in this way. - A vast amount of regulation also needs to be reversed – the Building Safety Regulator, second staircase rules, dual aspect rules, and others – in order to make building cheaper. Otherwise, we will find ourselves in a position where even if you get permission to build a home it is prohibitively expensive to do so. - Affordable housing requirements are a tax on new housing and almost certainly reduce the overall amount of homes that get built. Manchester has built thousands of new homes without them. Richard Leese, the Labour leader of the City Council, said "If we’d tried to impose 20% affordability on it, it wouldn’t have happened. We wouldn’t have got 20% affordable housing, we would have got nothing." - Many of the most vocal foes of new building in inner London are ideological opponents of private construction and cannot be reasoned or bargained with. Defeating them will involve a combination of targeted upzoning imposed by central government and the creation of hyperlocal mechanisms that allow the people who are most directly affected by new development to decide on it (eg, estate regeneration). The anti-building ideologues only win because normal people sympathise with them. - If we do not do not work to make the existing housing stock more easily transacted and building much easier, London will become hollowed out. Existing market-rate housing will be bid up by wealthy people who can afford it, and anyone on a middle income – let alone a low income who does not have a social home – will find it very difficult to live here, except in cramped houseshares when they are young. London should not be a city for only the very poor and very rich.

@RobinNestBCFC Interesting that Iraola is moving on, probably to a much bigger job… at the same time, Elphick is going solo. Impossible to know what it means, good or bad… but it’s an interesting diversion from the standard “manager goes to bigger job, assistant follows him”.

I think others have said on here as well, I genuinely think Iraola has the potential to be an all time great manager I really do He’s very special - to get his assistant in Elphick could be quite a move

@DrHoenderkamp @Keir_Starmer Do you feel the same about paying for old people who were too careless to save sufficient amounts to fund their own retirements?

It’s not free… we, tax payers, are paying for other people’s children once again. Well done @Keir_Starmer

@BCFC_Supporters My only concern is that we haven’t ended up with a Mousinho, or someone else we had to fight for. Had Mousinho been announced, it would have been because he got SL to commit to significant spending, because he would have been in a position to demand it. Not sure TE could have

I would have loved Carsley personally. Elphick is a big gamble, and not sure it’s one we can afford to take at the moment. Would love to know the thinking behind the decision. If he’s the man, he needs backing, as well as time, we shall see…

@sgred06 @DanCarterJourno @RobinNestBCFC @JPercyTelegraph Unproven? You might not have know much about him at the time, but that doesn’t mean he was unproven. He had managed in four different countries, and had managed bigger clubs than City in each of his previous two jobs…

@DanCarterJourno @RobinNestBCFC @JPercyTelegraph Are we making the same mistake as last season by appointing an unproven manager.

Understand, as first reported by @JPercyTelegraph, that Bournemouth assistant Tommy Elphick is the front runner to become #BristolCity’s next head coach. 🔴⚪️ Belief is that the deal isn’t yet done, however. Robins on hunt for permanent boss ahead of new season.

@RobinNestBCFC My big worry with any coach coming out of a well-run club, is how effective they can be in a club that is less well-run, and without the support network and infrastructure that they are used to.

Can’t say I know anything about Elphick as a coach/manager tbh

Betting markets suspended on the new head coach Top 3: John Mousinho Tommy Elphick Lee Carsley 🤔

@bcfcpezza Would also make it way easier for them to atttact top players

There’s a quite obvious dialogue being missed by seemingly 85% of people who argue rangers and Celtic wouldn’t compete in the EPL, that being that they currently operate with SPL revenue, not EPL revenue. The extra cash would easily propel them inside the top 12.

@TalkWurzel The lack of football league experience would be more of a factor were he an old fashioned “manager” - dealing with agents, negotiating contracts, etc. We have the infrastructure in place for him to focus on the on-field coaching… where his credentials are outstanding.

Lee Carsley. Torn on this, but my overriding sense is that this is exactly the appointment we don’t need. We keep saying about being “Premier League ready”, but this guy hasn’t even got any football league experience as a manager / coach. Surely this is exactly the opposite of what we need? We haven’t got time for people to learn on the job here. Thats my view and really uninspired by it.

@RugbyInsideLine Bristol are toast. Pretty much relying on Exeter vs Sarries ending in a low scoring draw.

📈 TWO ROUNDS TO GO Three teams vying for the final playoff place, with Tigers all but assured a spot. ✖️ Exeter 💫 Saracens 🐻 Bristol Who will make the playoffs?

@JLyall93 💯. There was one Six Nations (2012?) where he was one of the best players in the whole competition.

Ross Rennie.

@JPercyTelegraph All for this, although it would be better if things such as parachute payments and player sales were excluded, to make it more of a function of BAU trading revenue

Big day looming in the EFL Championship on Friday when clubs will vote on the implementation of Squad Cost Ratio (SCR) rules for next season. SCR will cap spending at 85% of revenue and replace PSR if approved. Will need 16 of the 24 clubs to vote in favour

@premrugby Performative nonsense. Everyone knows that there is almost zero chance of anyone actually throwing a punch nowadays. Cosplaying as a tough guy has never been easier.

Tensions are high in the East Midlands derby as Henry Pollock and Hanro Liebenberg get into it 👀 #GallagherPREM | #PREMRugby

@138reset @AJKayWriter Low IQ is arguing against the person who is agreeing with you….

Colonizing diagnosis?? Ohhhhh low IQ shit move- there’s like thousands of TikTok’s telling women how to fake their ADHD symptoms to get weight loss medicine that makes them euphoric. Half of my sales team was on Adderall illegally. Neurodivergent = vaccine injury. Real ADHD is 1/10 the diagnosis.

Social media has convinced an entire generation that ordinary human behavior requires a diagnostic label. This isn't healthy.

@RibchesterJosh Good off the ball, decent finisher …. would have looked (and been perceived) a lot better if we had better options to play alongside him, or in rotation.

Thoughts on Emil Riis after 1 season lads #pne #BristolCity

@BristolBears @TheExiledRobin I don’t actually care about the original comment…. It’s fair game. But the “taken out of context” bullshit is embarrassing. You said a thing… own it!

A message from our CEO ✉️

@TheExiledRobin @GabSutton 💯. A lot of the “bought the league” brigade seem to forget how many clubs spend a ton of money, without any discernible improvement in results

@GabSutton What a very fair and sensible comment on it all, as opposed to the vitriolic nonsense you often see on here about them 👏

Just wanted to acknowledge Wrexham, and another fantastic season for them. Yes, they've had money but it's not as straightforward as that. You've got to get all the other 1%ers on point. They've finished 7th in the Championship with the likes of Dan Scarr, Max Cleworth, George Dobson and Sam Smith who have risen up the leagues. Juggling the need to upgrade the squad for a new level every season, without disrupting the synergy and togetherness of the group, is a really awkward balancing act and in that regard, I anticipated this season being harder than it has been. I commend Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney for having the humility to know what they don't know, and trust the people best qualified to make decisions to make them. Well done to Phil Parkinson, Steve Parkin, Les Reed and all connected 👏🏻 #WxmAFC 🔴⚪️

@UnitedStandMUFC Absolutely outstanding player, and seems to be as class an act off the field, as he has been on it. Thank you, Radek #bcfc

🚨 #Mufc loanee Radek Vitek has claimed a CLEAN SWEEP of awards for Bristol City! He's got Player, Player's Player and Young Player of the year! 🧤

@LastBlairite I have seen plenty of networking and relationship-building, at all levels within businesses of multiple sizes and stages, that didn’t involve alcohol.

Sean has never worked behind a bar or done any job that involves networking or relationship building because I’ve seen plenty of ‘normal’ people have a drink whilst working. I’ve even seen tradespeople enjoy a cold beer whilst working on a hot afternoon.